A few years ago i was in hospital with pnuemonia and because i was so ill but the hospital was busy, i was put on a ward for diabetics with severe problems - this ward had a high patient/nurse ratio.
The lady in the bed next to me was brain damaged. She had experienced many hypos in her time but didnt realise how serious they could be, as she had always recovered and in effect, become complacent. I know this as her sister told me, on one of her many visits and one of the nurses also explained to me what had happened.
One day she didnt 'come out of it' and her liver didnt 'dump glucose' to the level she needed. When she was found, although outwardly she recovered, she was forever brain damaged.
The nurses on that ward told me they were always having to patch up and educate diabetics who didnt take their condition and their hypos seriously and i saw for myself how hypo unaware some of those ladies were.
When i read here that low numbers arent that much to fret over, i am minded of that poor lady, who was in her early 30s and would never again lead anything like a normal or independent life.
And this lady i mentioned is not a rare case. My good friend, now living in Australia, was married to a Type 1 diabetic who had frequent hypos and not because he was careless but because his body couldnt regulate itself even with a strict regime of insulin and food intake. He eventually had a form of brain damage that altered his personality and again, his consultant assured him and my friend that his wasnt a rare case.
A low is low if you feel it is low. It is not safe and not mature to try to soldier on with a low reading. Our bodies are not machines and what works one day does not necessarily work the next and we are not in competition with anyone to see 'how low can you go'. As ever, your meter is your guide!
LOL!
bunty